Difficult to understand the "reverse elimination"
"Stone will definitely enter the next round". After the first round of evaluation of Stone was eliminated, Rao Yili, president of Peking University Academy of Life Sciences, stood firm.
Both of them are "returnees" who are in charge of Tsinghua and Peking University. They were very vocal in this academician election, but they all failed.
In a blog post last night, Rao Yi bluntly pointed out that the election result of his department of life sciences and medicine was "reverse elimination", which was puzzling.
When talking about Shi et al.' s unsuccessful election, he concluded that in the current selection of academicians, the emphasis is not on academic level, age, academic qualifications and contribution to domestic science, but "the time to bow in line in front of some people can sometimes play a great role".
"Turtle" was suppressed?
When the first round was "brushed", Rao Yi thought it was not academic reasons, but "irrelevant". However, last night, he pointed the finger at the bad culture in China, arguing that the reason for "adverse elimination" in academician selection is not the system design and procedures of the Academy of Sciences, but the culture of "rejecting talents", "fearing talents" and "rejecting talents".
Talking about personal experience, he said that among scientists of the same age, many people had a good relationship before, but after he returned to China, he changed his face. Why is the "turtle" picky? Is there a custom of "refusing talents" for the stockaded village owners who don't look at talents, but value sworn brothers to shock the mountain and shake the tiger? He asked questions.
Shi said in an interview before that "science is noble, but scientists are not necessarily noble, so don't confuse these two concepts". In his view, the country pays too much attention to appearance and title.
"Youth" is a double-edged sword.
Rao Yi mentioned a phenomenon before, that international excellent universities were promoted to associate professors, and they could be academicians in China, so that domestic excellent researchers ended their active research period ahead of schedule.
Academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences are younger, but they also face many temptations earlier. Therefore, the Academy of Engineering has written to new academicians and their departments and units for several years in succession, reminding academicians to avoid participating in various activities such as evaluation, appraisal and consultation that have nothing to do with their majors.
Rao Yi, who announced that he would no longer run for academician, wrote a letter when he was overseas, suggesting that the "member of the academic department" at that time should be changed to "academician" to show more respect for scientists. Now he suggests that "academician" should be changed back to "member of the academic department" so that academic honor can return to the academic circle.
Now, he is practicing the "challenge book" at the end of August this year, and wants to compare with the academicians elected ten years later.